Worlds 2026 Swiss Round 2: T1 vs Dplus KIA and Gen.G vs HLE Headline
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Two of the four Korean teams that went unbeaten on the opening day of the Worlds 2026 Swiss Stage will drop to 1-1 on Saturday, October 24. The Round 2 draw in Allen, Texas, pairs T1 with Dplus KIA and Hanwha Life Esports with Gen.G. On the other side, the four LPL teams that lost on Friday all need a first win to stay out of the 0-2 pool.
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Round 2 schedule on October 24
All eight Round 2 games are best-of-one. The order below follows the draw published by Sheep Esports, and the broadcast is listed for a 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT) start, with one game roughly every hour after that.
| Order | Match | Pool |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Top Esports vs Anyone’s Legend | 0-1 |
| 2 | CTBC Flying Oyster vs Movistar KOI | 1-0 |
| 3 | G2 Esports vs LOS | 0-1 |
| 4 | LYON vs Karmine Corp | 1-0 |
| 5 | Invictus Gaming vs Team Secret Whales | 0-1 |
| 6 | Hanwha Life Esports vs Gen.G | 1-0 |
| 7 | Dplus KIA vs T1 | 1-0 |
| 8 | Bilibili Gaming vs Team Liquid | 0-1 |
The games are streamed on LoL Esports and Riot’s official Twitch channel. Swiss play continues on October 25 and 26, then takes a rest day on October 27 before the final rounds from October 28 to 31.
How Round 1 set this up
Friday was a bad day for China. All four LPL teams lost, while the LCK went 4-0 and the LEC’s two lowest seeds, Movistar KOI and Karmine Corp, beat Bilibili Gaming and Anyone’s Legend. G2 Esports were the only European side to lose, after leading Dplus KIA 7-0 in kills early in the game.
| 1-0 after Round 1 | 0-1 after Round 1 |
|---|---|
| Gen.G | Invictus Gaming |
| Hanwha Life Esports | Top Esports |
| Movistar KOI | Bilibili Gaming |
| Karmine Corp | Anyone’s Legend |
| Dplus KIA | G2 Esports |
| CTBC Flying Oyster | Team Liquid |
| T1 | LOS |
| LYON | Team Secret Whales |
The two LCK games to watch
T1 arrive as three-time defending world champions and opened with a routine win over LOS. Dplus KIA had a much messier start against G2 before turning it around in the mid game. A best-of-one between them is close to a coin flip, and whoever loses still has two more chances to reach three wins.
Hanwha Life against Gen.G is the other Korean meeting. Gen.G looked the sharpest team on Friday, with Chovy and Canyon controlling the late fights against Invictus Gaming, and Hanwha Life beat a Top Esports lineup that started without ZUIAN. The loser of this one becomes the first LCK team to carry a loss in the tournament.
The LPL needs a reset
Top Esports vs Anyone’s Legend opens the day, so one Chinese team is guaranteed to reach 1-1. The other three LPL sides face non-Chinese opponents: Invictus Gaming play Team Secret Whales, and Bilibili Gaming meet Team Liquid in the last game. A second loss would put any of them in the 0-2 pool, where every series from Round 3 onward is an elimination match.
The game we would watch is Karmine Corp vs LYON. Karmine Corp came through the Play-In and LYON were not among the favorites either. Both still won on Friday, and a 2-0 start for either would put a non-LCK, non-LPL team one series away from the quarterfinals.
What comes next
According to Sheep Esports, best-of-three series start in Round 3, which begins on October 25. Teams at 2-0 will play for a spot in the quarterfinals, and teams at 0-2 will play to stay alive.
Scores, records and the Round 3 pairings go into our Worlds 2026 results and standings tracker after each day of play.
Featured image: Worlds stage during the group stage of the 2015 World Championship (Photo: Bruce Liu via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0).
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